Saṃyutta Nikāya
II. Nidāna Vagga
14. Dhātu-Saṃyuttaṃ
I. Nānatta Vagga Paṭhama
1. Ajjhatta-Pañcakaṃ

Sutta 3

No ce tam
[No Phassa-Nānatta]
Suttaṃ

Not If This^[1]

Translated from the Pāḷi
by
Michael M. Olds

 

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[1][pts][bodh] I HEAR TELL:

Once upon a time, The Lucky man,
Sāvatthi-town revisiting,
Jeta Grove,
Anathapiṇḍika's Sporting Grounds.

"It is the diversity of data, beggars,
that rebounds as
what comes to be
diverse touches;
it is not that^[2]
the diversity of touches
rebounds as
what comes to be
diverse data.

And what, beggars, are the diverse data?

Eye data
ear data,
nose data,
tongue data,
body data,
mind data.

These beggars,
are what is called
the diverse data.

And what,^[3] beggars,
are the diverse touches
that come to be
rebounding off the diverse data?

What are the diverse data
that do not come to be
rebounding off the diverse touches?

Eye-touch, beggars,
comes to be
rebounding off eye data,
it is not that eye data
comes to be
rebounding off eye-touch.

Ear-touch, beggars,
comes to be
rebounding off ear data,
it is not that ear data
comes to be
rebounding off ear-touch.

Nose-touch, beggars,
comes to be
rebounding off nose data,
it is not that nose data
comes to be
rebounding off nose-touch.

Tongue-touch, beggars,
comes to be
rebounding off tongue data,
it is not that tongue data
comes to be
rebounding off tongue-touch.

Body-touch, beggars,
comes to be
rebounding off body data,
it is not that body data
comes to be
rebounding off body-touch.

Mind-touch, beggars,
comes to be
rebounding off mind data,
it is not that mind data
comes to be
rebounding off mind-touch.

Such then, beggars,
are the diverse touches
that come to be
rebounding off the diverse data,
the diverse data
that do not come to be
rebounding off the diverse touches."

 

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^[1] No ce tam. Rhys Davids/Woodward note: Reading no c'etaṇ. I hear this to be saying: This proposition is to be understood as correct if stated this way (the first way it is stated), but not if this way (the second way it is stated). PED: Ce [Vedic ced; ce = Latin que in absque, ne-c, etc., Goth. h in ni-h. see also ca ³] conditional particle "if," ... .

^[2] No.

^[3] There is inconsistency among the various versions of the Pāḷi — katamañ ca katamañ ca, kathañ ca, kathañ ca — And what, and how. I am ignoring such and going with what makes sense throughout this series.